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...cattle, hogs-dropped sharply last spring, record harvests are anticipated and the surge in agricultural exports that did much to boost U.S. food prices last year is now waning (TIME, July 1). Yet only a few grocery prices -for poultry, eggs, dairy goods and some cuts of beef and pork-have come down significantly. On average, retail food prices rose .9% in May, a month during which wholesale food prices dropped .6%. During the first quarter of 1974, the prices that farmers got for all the ingredients going into white bread fell 32%-but the store price for the finished...
...seeing his customers reach for the water glass, but rather that authentic Szechuan-Hunam-style food does not have that bland taste that characterizes so many Chinese-American dishes. For the less-than-ambitious, Su-Shiang's menu also offers a multitude of seafood, poultry, beef and pork dishes without the distinctive Szechuan flavor...
...cattle industry-a statement that might make keepers of family food budgets wonder how serious the Government is about fighting inflation. Washington suited a number of actions to Butz's words. The Government announced that it would step up purchase of as much as $100 million worth of pork and beef and store it for use in school lunch programs. Butz himself threatened to recommend "drastic action" against Canada-such as curbing egg imports-unless that nation drops its recent ban on U.S. beef from steers fed a growth hormone that is prohibited there. He also tried to persuade...
...needs," says the Rev. William Lawson, a Baptist preacher in Houston. For Mary Davis, a Chicago urban planner, being middle class means "going to a good school, being clean and taking a bath." Evelyn Thompson, a reporter for KOOL-TV in Phoenix, recalling the well-done cuts of cheap pork that poor blacks consume, observes: "You know a black has been assimilated into the middle class if he eats rare meat...
...mixed and often explosive border with Berkeley, the simple restaurant is one of the few places where black and white comfortably coexist. Jackson, a regular customer, gives Lois a friendly pat on the backside and helps himself to biscuits and milk as he waits for his usual order of pork chops, rice and scrambled eggs...